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New Research Reveals That Employees with All Levels of Digital Skills Boost Hong Kong’s Annual GDP by US $47.5 billion

73% say digital skills will be very important or extremely important to their business over the next five years, but 72% of organizations are facing hiring issues

AWS has trained over 100,000 individuals in Hong Kong with cloud skills since 2014

HONG KONG SAR - Media OutReach - 21 March 2023 - Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com company, today released new research that shows that employees with basic through to advanced digital skill levels in Hong Kong increases the city's annual gross domestic product (GDP) by US $47.5 billion.

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